Tonight Bill Maher sits down with Piers Morgan to talk the latest news, President Barack Obama and more. The list of GOP hopefuls is growing and it could soon include both Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin. Which female does Maher think could lead the GOP? Maybe Bachmann. "At least she's somebody who can read." He says he really doesn't know who he would pick but he "absolutely" believes Sarah Palin could become president. "This Republican party is not your father's Republican party."

Catch the full interview – including Maher's thoughts on Casey Anthony – at 9pm!

Dear Bill – While I consider you partially entertaining and somewhat on point. You are clearly lacking material and visibility on the grander scheme of life and dare I say it... Common-Sense – Sara clearly has a value that is unique and while no one is perfect ... Sara has decide her best course for financial growth and prosperity is to talk about the political issues at large vs actually being accountable to sustain them or change them. She should be applauded for making the most of her limited capabilities and I am sure she will do well in the chosen path of capitalism. As for President.– Common Sense – Bill Common Sense – Ask yourself if you are really being sensible.

Common-Sense-1776: You appear quite intelligent, so it's difficult to fathom what you possibly see in Sarah Palin as a viable political candidate. First and foremost – she QUIT her last elected position. Secondly – tell me what her ideas are beyond complaining about Obama. That's ALL she does. I'm unhappy with some of Obama's performance, but one thing he got right is that in general, Republicans are indeed the Party of No. Their platform as long as I can remember is to be negative, and to actively stifle whatever initiatives a Democratic president puts forward, even if the American people want it.

See ya later although there are no vouchers being given out at the welfare office for you to leave with, we know you couldn't pay for it with your food stamps, please, please leave anyway we do not need you or your pathetic, lazy duma$$e$ anyway the country will be better off without you an with Sara Palin as president, the funny thing is I don't want her as president either but anything is better than the idiot that is in there now.

To the obama hater: It cracks me up that the right wing tries to use all of the insults that W received. The problem is, they weren't insults, they were the truth. W was completely illiterate, could barely string together two words and had the most vile and evil creature on Earth pulling his strings. To claim that Sarah Palin or any current GOP candidate is even marginally close in intelligence to Obama shows that all you care about is image. Pearly white image. oh yea and throwing around Bible, Jesus, God and TAKE BACK AMERICA!!! Wonder what it's like to be so angry and selfish.

i will not blame all the people who what to leave, after all it was republican who started the mess, now they are acting like they are better than democrat. if they have all these plans and ideal that they are talking about why did they do it in the eight years with their president.to me they are trying to fool the america people into we know it all.

....AND there will be an even LONGER line to leave this country if OBAMA gets a second term. NO ONE will be able to AFFORD to live here. HIGHEST GAS PRICES, HIGHEST FOOD PRICES, DOUBLE DIP RECESSION W/HOUSING, HIGHEST UNEMPLOYMENT. I don't believe Sara Palin has these things listed on HER RESUME!

To Suzy Diamond – Are people just totally blind to the fact that what is happening now is the AFTERMATH of the BUSH administration and that Obama has not been able to reverse because his hands are tied??? Kennedy was a good man who stood for peace and because of it was shot. So was MLK – the powers that be in this country know that a nation divided keeps them in control. ALL presidents are just puppets to the puppet masters – no conspiracy theory here – just someone who doesn't cover the sun with one finger and believes all the bull crap they feed us through the media. OPEN YOUR EYES people!! We are all being duped – America was highjacked my power hungry AMERICANS.

Why would you have ever thought Maher would be pro-Republican? He's intelligent and he's an atheist. And bear in mind that Dems are the only other realistic choice, it isn't like any political party in existence suits anyone 100%.

The better idea is to ship Sarah Palin to another country... burn her passport, and wipe your hands clean of the mess. Not that there is any truth to any democrat wanting to protect American citizens from her, or the republicans wanting to take way the SS and Medicare benefits our government forced us to pay in for all these years.

Politics, all of it.... All that we hear in the news from the politicians is just more CARp! Hook line and sinker, we have all been reeled in, but the actions NEVER show fruition of the words they spew to keep us at bay. Get ready for the NWO!

I wish it were that easy. But I would move out of the US if I could. These right wing lunatics are not the Republicans of time past. They are well, lunatics that are bringing the country to its knees. I'd move to Canada if I were younger and had a chance to start over.

I heard on the radio one time, "if you hear some one using Obamas middle name, that person is a RACIST"
If you say, he is well spoked, as Jo Biden did, You are a racist.

But it's OK to SLAM any woman that runs for President. It's OK to to make her look crazy, stupid or mentally unbalanced.
Hillery, Palin, O'Donnell, Bachmann are the butt of every joke.
Kimmel and Letterman are still making Palin jokes, 3 years after the election.
Oprah has made billions off woman and will not back any woman.

Woman have 50% of the vote and the think and vote the way they are told.

Lol nice try there bud. You actually do far more of a disservice to women than you realize. How? By suggesting that these three tea party women are qualified to run and that we women somehow hate them...because they are women rather than because they are completely inept and taking women back 50 years everytime they open their mouths. It's the same reason that I, a black woman, could never have voted for Al Sharpton, he just doesn't have what it takes. Yet I voted for Barack Obama, because he does. You can't just say say "oh hey he, or she looks like ME, therefore I'll vote for them." No, that's the Republican way, and it's not good for this country. Hillary Clinton did get made fun of (as do all politicians), but she is far more respected than those three dolts from the tea party, I certainly wouldn't have been upset if she had won. Give me a break!

Why can't politicians just answer the question without beating around the bush. They are so afraid of taking a stand and offending someone it is actually sad. So whoever can tap dance the issues without opposing anyone or anything gets the vote.

Well if you stay in the US IF Palin gets in or any of those radical crazy Tea Party loonies, you will be living in Syria....and you will welcome the invitation to go and live with the devil in hell. Cos that's what the US will become.

Ha! You may as well move to Syria if Palin gets in, she'll create a world for US citizens that will take you all back 300 years. The US will be come medieval in it's treatment of citizens with little money.There will be more poverty, as her policies will divide the rich from the poor. There'll be people on the streets, with no homes, and no healthcare when they are ill, so the death rate for people who could be treated with modern technology will rise dramatically.They'll be more hate, more division of racial contempt and superiority. White Power will be the norm and they'll be lynchings and a whole lot of other nasty stuff. We in the UK call Palin the Devil's Wife. Palin thinks she knows what US wants, but she speaks for a minority of haters who despise anyone of colour taking way their white power.Because that's what she was brought up to believe, that Whites are the only ones to have power. President Lincoln & Roosevelt are turning in their graves at this!

Big Thumbs Up Sunnie because that is exactly right!! Why beat around the BUSH LOL!! What is hilarious to me is that many of the people that would end up worse off are still the imbeciles who vote for these lizards!

Look, get something straight, if you use the logic that after the past 3 years its STILL George W Bush's fault, then why isnt it Bill Clinton's fault for the first 3 years of George's term. All of that time the Legislature was controlled by the Dems, THEY make the law NOT the Pres. Obama reads beautifully, take away his tele prompter and he's Daffy Duck.
While I don't believe Sarah Palin to be Presidential, she is honest and has character, more than I can say for the current regime who more closely resemble a cross between Al Capone & the SS.
Liberials know no God, (maybe money & power), they are pro abortion but anti death penalty, Pro Tech but anti free market, Pro Gay and Pro Muslim (who want to kill all Gay) Pro every religion Except Christianity, they say they are anti hate but are hateful (Sarah Palin best case in point) Pro women but Anti Sarah Palin, Pro education but anti school choice,
Pro Darwin and Pro endangered species.
If Obama is so smart why has he paid almost 1mil $ to hide his college transcripts from every collegfe he has attended.
He leaves town when there are things to do, comes back and blames everybody else for his shortcomings.
He is even more incompetent than Jimmy Carter, wake up liberal's WAKE UP.

You don't know much about economics, if you did, you would understand if you took all the money from million and billionaires in USA you would put much of a dent in the debt. What is needed is spending reform and more jobs created. Do some research and please get some mental therapy if you go along with a mentally disturbed moron like Maher about anything.

lol Lena is on the defense today. If Sarah Palin ever became president, you'll be seeing a lot of U.S. citizens jumping the border to go TO Mexico lol. Sorry Lena, the last people we're going to take economics lessons from is a republican. After all, it was a republican who got us into this mess.

Che says... the last person we will taken econ lessons from is a Repub...cuz they got us in this mess.
Typical Kool Aid drinker. CLINTON started this morasse by innsisting we deregulate banking to permit sub prime loans!! Get your history right. Clinton also vetoed the 'balanced budget admendment".... TWICE and finally had to to stand ANY chance of beiny relected. THAT stemmed the erosion of teh surplus that was created by the Republican Senate and House during his term. He ATE the REAL surplus Bush's/Congress created...remember....unemployent was 4% under Bush. 7% under Clinton.... over 12% (REAL unemployed in the US – RAnd and Pugh polls...NOT the white washed white house data) under Obama. ANYONE will be better than Obama... Already on track to replacing Carter as the worst President in History....

Look into your recent economic history. The only time jobs were created and unemployment stayed down in the last 20 years was when Clinton was in office. Ronald Reagan AND George W. Bush lowered the tax rate and we lost jobs. Its been proven raising taxes DOES NOT STUNT JOB GROWTH. Do your homework. Vote to get AMERICANS back to work. That will raise the revenues and this country's spirit. Vote for the country not just YOURSELVES.

Have all repubs and rightous wingers forgotten that after 10 years of lower tax rates for the rich, I mean "job creators", we have lost millions of jobs in this country. Most have gone overseas so the rich ceos, I mean "job creators" can keep more of the record profits themselves. How stupid are we as a country?

Bill has the huevos rancheros to shed light on many things and why so many people hate him – especially those who live in denial. Who runs this country? BIG BUCKS – corporations who dole out money to politicians to further their agendas to what? MAKE MORE MONEY. That's it...it's a giant virus like cancer called GREED and we're all the worst for it. Patriot Act? What the hell is that?? A means to shut people up who yell, "HEY!! The emperor isn't wearing any clothes!!" That that's what Bill does. But I see you'd rather be like all the other morons who stand and pretend the emperor has clothes on to such a degree that you can't see his stinkin' nuts!

Piers, I'm a huge fan of Britain, America's greatest ally (my Mother was English), but please, for God’s sake, learn to say “Amer-i-ca,” not Ameri-ker. If you’re going to take our American greenbacks, at least pronounce America like we do, in, well, America.

If we had a person as smart and clear about running this country I'd even start watching the news again. Take the money for half the military budget and invest it in science, technology and space to create new jobs that are effective in getting the USA ahead again. Right on Bill Maher!

If we had a person as smart and clear about running this country as Bill Maher, I'd even start watching the news again. Take the money for half the military budget and invest it in science, technology and space to create new jobs that are effective in getting the USA ahead again. Right on Bill Maher!

Just take a look at the countries who are fairly successful in, and are rising above AMERICA in their research, science, and technology. As Bill stated, do they have Army bases in evry remote corner of the planet? Only one example of issues. I don't think one person is always right about absolutely everything. But while we, as people, and the politicians we elected, who are really out to simply continue to help themselves in some way, continue to argue back and forth, AMERICA just continues to lose it's grasp on all greatness it once had...

FYI... until Bush ... No president in American History had ever given a tax break during a war ... let alone two wars. End the Bush tax cuts. Baby boomers have fueled this economy since their birth.... beginning with diapers and baby food. Now that Boomers are approaching retirement/retiring ...... they want to throw them under the bus.... kill half of them off before they can collect. WE CAN ADD! "The American People" are not as stupid as some think!

Correct. As long as you don't count Korea or Vietnam. Or the Cold War. And since the income tax amendment wasn't passed until 1913, the stat is still meaningless because the number of long-term wars since then have been few. But it is a nice handed-me-down talking point.

In response to the poster below .... I am not one to discount anything without digging but this much I already know .... nothing compares to what happened and the paradigm shift we were in during the Bush years. Somebody left the lid off the cookie jar and many helped themselves leaving the vast majority of the working class with crumbs ... while bakers around the world were coming up with new recipes. It's a simple analogy but it is also plain english. ..... Trust is gone. The trickle down mantra has run it's course.

Do they not teach history anymore? Johnson lowered taxes during teh Viet nam war two years. Roosevelt lowered business taxes in his last term during WWII. Britian lowered it's taxes for four years during WWII.
Stop drinking the Kool Aid... READ and know that Bush's tax breaks created undemployemnt numbers at 4% for 5 years.
NO country EVER taxed itself out of recession. THAT is a fact. No new taxes....but increased revenue by closing loop holes is econ 101 and the ONLY econ model that has historically worked to end a recession and put people back to work. Let's learn from History.... time to put America back to work.

Could Piers Shut the F up and let Bill Maher talk? Do I really care what Piers thinks? I'm watching cuz of Maher!! Christ he makes me miss Larry King interviewing Maher. At least Maher could get a sentence out while King dozed off.....

Similar comments (and I) agree. Piers has too many knee-jerk reactions, guffaws, and interruptions. But Bill Maher (not "Mahre") was patient and professionally poised to maintain the flow of the dialog.

The current democrats are where the Republicans used to be 20 years ago and the GOP is off the right cliff heading for who the heck knows what... but certainly NOT for Americans! Where is our representation?

You are so right on with everything you are saying! The Republicans clearly ran up this dept and now they are trying to saddle Obama for it. You are without a doubt the best political analyst anywhere!

Wow Ron, really? You know your facts? Well how about this one. Obama added more to the National debt in his 1st 19 months, than all presidents from Washington Through Reagan COMBINED, Says Gov’t Data. Look it up! Oh and by the way, it's DEBT, not DEPT.

Most of what was added to government debt during the Obama administration has been a direct result of trying to dig out of the failed Bush reign, er I mean presidency. His (Bush Jr) economic, political, and military policies destroyed this country in his 8 very long and wearing years of tyranny.

God Bless Obama! He's a very good family man, Very reputable, Smart enough to represent our fine Nation on the world stage, Able to be president in a very tough time and still remain presidential. A very good leader in a time of uncertainly.
He's got my vote and I'm not leaving my country for anything. I'm a moderate, I have faith in my nation to elect this president one more time.

Most of what was added to government debt during the Obama administration has been a direct result of trying to dig out of the failed Bush reign, er I mean presidency. His (Bush Jr) economic, political, and military policies destroyed this country in his 8 very long and wearing years of tyranny.

Not all states require you to choose a political party in the primary. Here in Washington, we just threw out the primary as a way to save the state money. Of course, what we lose are all the political junkets to our state and the dollars that would have been spent here.

So, for the WA resident below, your position is that Bill Maher (1) is a registered voter in an open primary state like WA (not CA where he does the show) and (2) given the ability to choose from a field that included ALL of the GOP candidates and ALL of the DEM candidates, he cast his ballot for GOP candidate John McCain. I presume that means he confirmed that vote in the November general election by voting once again for McCain versus the DEM nominee.

I find it amazing that we constantly worry about taxing the wealthy but worry not about the nearly 50% who pay no federal income taxes. Might we consider lifting our society to a standard where education is important and certainly leads to jobs (unemployment among college graduates is about half the rate of non-graduates). If we continue on the slippery slope we are on, we will certainly need to tax the wealthy more as the percentage of those paying no taxes is on a slippery slope upward. I wonder if everyone thinks we're all in the situation we are in through no fault of our own.

For one thing I cannot believe he had Bill Maher on the show, a person that may think he understands the world but does not. He states that we need to cut the American Military and bringh them all home, I guess if that is the case we should pull all funding from the UN and NATO, stop being the worlds police force and let the genocide begin along with giving up protection to our key allies in Europe and Asia.

If he is seriuos about this then he should be screaming at the top if his lungs that congress is paid too much. 160K per year when in fact 60% of senators and 40 % of congressmen are millionaires. No one is bringing good reduction ideas tothe table such as selling off the TVA facilities, Selling off Fannie and Freddie, fixing the postal service or disbanding it since it is in the red all the time.

We also have an imbalance of who pays taxes. Liberal Progressivism is dead and it is now time for all Americans to stand up and stop bashing each side and have a meaning full discussion, Obama should embrace his own debt commisions findings instead of dismissing them, they have the answers in front of them use them and the American People can assist with the ideas we all have.

"WE" don't worry about taxing the rich. That's just a democrat strategy called "class warfare" that they use to divide the nation. Obama is a Millionaire according to his last tax return, yet the liberal media lets him get away with saying "Millionaires and Billionaires" as if they are the enemy. Meanwhile the real enemy, is Obama, the stealth Muslim, who's had the skids greased for him his whole life. His school records are sealed so we cant see the Communist Revolutionary in action. If there were any real journalism, and hardened reporters like there used to be, we might get some answers. As it is, you have to search the internet. Do it quickly, because Team Obama wants to take away your freedom to browse. Afraid you might find out the truth.

It's it interesting that it takes a comedian like Bill Maher to wake up Americans and it takes the Sara Pailen to keep us all laughing. Sara Pailen and Michele Bachmann and any other cookos should all start there very on show "Nuts in a Nut Shell"
America could all do with some brain food.

Did Piers Morgan and Bil Maher just assert that China has a small military compared to the 500,000 person U.S. military? China has the largest military in the world (no surprise given its population size) and the largest standing army in the world at 2.5 million members, which is still larger than 500,000 the last time I checked. Oh, and here's a question for Maher regarding America being a "dumb country": was the election of Obama in 2008 evidence in support of this contention? If you claim it is an exception, did does the country move from dumb to smart from year to year depending on whether it agrees with Bill Maher?

Ohhhh geez, Casey Anthony ... the woman without a soul. I would run if I ever saw her and anybody that takes her in had better think twice. They will get more than they bargained for ...she is ready to pop after 3 years in solitary.

Forget the candidates. Ask Bill about Rick Scott, governor of Florida, who won claiming he could run government like a business. Now, with the budget cut, there is less local money in circulation, and the economy is starting to tank. Do we want one of these in the White House?

Bill Mahre is the biggest idiot that I've ever seen...those idiots on that Casey Anthony jury were all his kind of fans...lazy bums who won't find a job,no morals whatsoeve, and party all the time on teir parents dime....this from a latino, American woman...and yes a "stupid conservative" please tell him to get out of his freakin fantasy world! What a moron!!!

...and... in all fairness to Sarah Palin, I pray she has the common sense to recognize her glaring incompetence as a world leader - all jobs have requirements, I hope well educated is one for this position. She should be satisfied to know that the nescient listen, which is disturbing enough.

Oh if only, if only Einstein and the others could have been as brilliant as Maher. Could it be that he does not believe in God and never prays because he realizes he'd be praying himself. To think we have God among us! Guess that explains why he is the most brilliant person ever.

I love watching Bill Maher because he just tells it like it is. He not a brown nose to anyone no matter what. I totally agree with what he said about Bone head Bush that left the country in a big big big mess and expect Obama to change it in a few years. Hello ?!!! Even though he doesn't believe in God (I do) I love him for telling the truth! Good job Bill Maher keep it up and even though you don't believe in God I pray that no harm comes to you because of your honesty. MM

If Bill Mahre thinks we should pay more taxes, then he should get out his checkbook and write the government a check, right on the air, so that we can see that he really believes the garbage he spouts.

It is interesting how some think a tax increase will take care of our financial woes. I'm sure we all realize many of us have constantly kept ourselves in less than desirable financial situations because we spent more than we take in, and that never seemed to change as incomes grew with wage increases, etc. I have seen nothing to suggest that the government operates any differently.

Actually, it's not a tax increase it's rescinding tax cuts that never should have happened. Escpecially during a war. It essentially cut the Governments salary. How does that play out in persoanl lives when your employer basically says ....."we want to cut your salary .... this will take you from being able to pay all your bills off within two years to putting you in severe debt at the same time you are about to retire.... and one more thing... I am goind to start another fight with another one of your neighbors across the street and you are going to pay for all the damages. How's that sound? Did you like hearing them say that? Did you you have a choice?

I want Kathleen to become the spokesperson for the liberals in the U.S. Conservatives would never lose another election. If the taxes are like a salary from taxpayers to the government as an employee, it is the only salary system in the world where the employee sets the salary and the raised and the employee gets to confiscate the employer's money.

Since we are playing the employer analogy game, if increasing the tax rates is not a tax increase but merely "rescinding tax cuts," I am sure that if an employer rescinded the last raise and busted a employee down to minimum wage in the real world, Kathleen would support that because it is not pay cut, but merely "rescinding a prior raise."

Saying the things you say about Mr Maher (btw check your spelling) does not make them true. Nor does it make you a very smart person. As you can see you are pretty much on your own here.
It does take a certain level of sofistication and sense of humour to fully appreciate what Mr. Maher has to say.
People like you will never be accused of either. You are safe in your little deluded world.

Now Doris, remember your manners, ladies of your era should know better than to slander publicly (that's like bearing false witness in the bible) - What will the Beaver think? You know what the say about opinion dear, yours is duly noted in the inconsequential. Now run along, go garden. Buh-by

Palin and Bachmann are not "conservative", they are teetering near corporate fascists. Palin, specifically, is completely unqualified to speak on any matter of politics. Neither of them resemble the "conservative" mothers in my circle. Neither of them scare me. Neither of them will ever be president.

Why is no one talking about Murdoch ? What does Bill think of this man?

Murdoch has controls more than one media in the US and UK than it has been legal yet he has bee mollycoddled by politician and policy makers.
Since the past 40 years he has interfered with our democracy - determining election results, bolstering politicians in exchange for influence, and smearing others who refuse his orders. Calling Alan Hart investigating on 911 rubbish and mocking it.Sadly other media head were taken up by this charismatic man of great wealth that has ruthlessly, corrupted broadcasting single handed.Rupert Murdoch owns 40% of British newspapers. In United States FOX news is known for "false spins" and deceiving stories yet nothing has been done by our congressmen as MONEY talks and the lobbies protected this monster that charm them.
The phone hacking is just part of the story. When the whistle blowers at FOX start whistling than worry about there pay checks in hard time of unemployment. Murdock has been manipulate the public and politicians like no other than Pied Piper taking us in to Wars based on LIES. There were no WMD yet Bush's lies were exaggerated and never exposed by Murdoch or any of the news media. This war has killed millions yet we are glued to the TV like zombies watching the Anthony trial or hearing Nancy Grace.

Why should we in America care about Murdoch ?? Murdoch controls our cultural and has had political influence over the years by FOX. Murdoch's hand-picked selection to run the Wall Street Journal was longtime loyalist Les Hinton, who oversaw News Corp's British newspapers during the height of News of the World's alleged hacking activity. Hinton twice testified to the UK parliament that he had conducted a rigorous inquiry into the papers he oversaw and claimed hacking was limited to one reporter. That's right: "Hinton, who ran the show for Murdoch as phone hacking"

Murdoch's cover-up and hacking of victims and shareholders alike.We have all tracked the lies and deceit coming from Fox News all these years and noting was truly done.

We as Americans need to know whether our privacy was violated by Murdoch reporters searching for a good scoop to sell news. Please ask Congress to hold a hearing to see that Murdoch does not get away with this corruption in United States.

Ask Congress to hold hearings to see just how far this scandal goes –

Now it appears that it's not just Fox that's the problem.

Murdoch's influence the media monopoly has stifling and chocked independent and honest journalism in most media is not an unreasonable suggestion as Murdoch's empire has always been the loudest and furthest reaching voice in the anglophone world and beyond.

Thank you Piers for bringing Bill Maher to your show. I loved your program tonight. Bill Maher is a talented guy. I always watch his show to get an idea about issues. I trust him and I never get bored when he starts talking! Please, invite him more often on your show. I am sure a lot of people would love that.

Loved your show with Bill Maher. It seemed a few times that you would not let him finish what he was saying. Sometimes, when a guest might be going on and on and boring, it is good for you to interrupt – but I don't think this was the case tonight. Everything Bill said was interesting and you should have let him finish.

I love Bill Maher, he is a genius! Comedy with a point! Keep it up Bill!! Love his HBO show, and everything he says is so spot on!
He was the reason for my one time exception to the "never watch piers" rule. Ever!
And now I promised myself I would never break the rule again! I just loved it when Bill "jokingly" asked who writes his notes for him, pointing out how poorly informed piers was on such a popular guest. A simple wiki search would have
given him the answer to his stupid question. And the constant interruptions! and offering his personal view on things!
Who gives a ... about what you think, Piers. I am counting the days until CNN finally gives you the well deserved boot and you finally release the spot for a true professional.
Piers Be gone!!!
Bill Rocks all the way!

Can't wait till all you leave the country when Palin wins. I'll help pack your bags. We get rid of you and we can get back to having great country again. Heard Syria is nice this tine of year. Bunch of liberal commies!

Have fun sending your 12 year olds to work 12 hour days. Haven't we realized long ago that corporations will not support local economies and provide education and medicine? I love the "liberal commie" tag ... thank god for counterbalance. This county is so close to corporate fascism and you are worried about government fighting to protect your health from the profiteers that want you sick? No worries about the US becoming socialist, my friend, we have slid so far right and are destined to slide further regardless.

I didn't want to infer I am pro-corporation. Corporations are the Evil Empires. But I do think that it time to stop all welfare foreign and domestic. From corporations to the poor. If libs want more taxes let them pay. Let's make taxes optional. And we will see who pays willingly.

Bill Mahre said he's not a Democrat and we sure as hell know he's not a republicaN, however, has he been lying to us-he just said he voted for McCann in the primary. Well guess what people, in the United States of America, you can ONLY VOTE FOR A MEMBER OF THE SAME PARTY YOU ARE REGISTERED TO; Dems can only vote in/for a Dem candidate and the same with Reps. McCann didn't run on the Democratic line. HOW DID BILL MAHER VOTE FOR McCANN?????

Guess what, Leonardo? As it is in your state, so it is not all over the United States of America. There are many states in the union in which one is not limited to voting in the primary of a party to which one is a registered member. I live in one. We had tons of nut job right-wingers here voting in the Democratic primary because they thought that they could better influence the outcome of the final election that way. I don't know whether Bill Maher voted in the Republican primary in his state or not, and neither do you.

Ive always wanted to know Bill Maher's credentials.What college did he attend.He seems to believe only in his own intelligence. He speaks with such authority even though he has the mind of an adolescent.Amazing.

What college did Biill Maher attend? You have to be kidding. Who cares! Everyone should believe in his or her own intelligence (including Bill Maher.). If you think he has the mind of an adolecent, you demean adolencense and demean adultnood; he is beyone middle age and is just happy to be who he is. Are you saying you are so much more than that? Just be at peace with what you are, and with what he is. Stop being so judgemental. Everyone is what they are. You included.

Piers, thanks for having Bill Maher on your show tonight. I sometimes tune into your show, and often just turn to another channel, because, well....I don't want to hear about stupid things. (All thoughts are not equal.) I much more enjoy being engaged by an articulate, reasoned guest once in a while. Have these type of guests more often and maybe I'd watch your show more often.

Jimmy Carter didn't fire a bullet but has FULL RESPONSIBILITY of what happened & happening in IRAN!!!!! To me he is more responsible than any other president to make the world upside down!!!! There would not be any Terrorist or Hezbollah If there was no revolution in Iran!!! Iranian people are dealing with all bunch of PSYCHOwho's been runing the country more than 30 years ago till now and just recently the rest of the world noticed that and nobody can do anything!!!!

Unemployment numbers are comprised of those that are in the job market for the past 30 days. It does not include those that have not been in the job market in the last 30 days: people who have given up looking; those that have gone off unemployment because it has run out. One solution to unemployment is "High Speed University" check it out

Piers; That might have been the best interview you've ever done. Your questions and comments were spot on, articulate, and inspiring. You better hope Bill doesn't want to get a CNN job...but then again, as Bill concluded, you did a "Noble Job" and have earned your spot with this one...

I watched the interview with Bill Maher last night because I enjoy listening to Bill Maher. Unfortunately Piers Morgan kept interrupting him to talk about himself or ask another question. I thought it was a terrible interview.

When you are on CNN prime time, you presumably have been hired bc you are good atbwhat you do, and you are expected to perform from day one, much more after 6months. The guy doesn't have what it takes to play with the "big boys". Bill on the other hand was a class act! It was clear he does not like Piers (one more reason to love him) but he was his usual brilliant self, poised, funny and so professional!
Oh, and did I mention I really LOVE Bill Maher?
Oh, and btw, CNN, we promise we'll forgive your little error in judgment, but please hurry up and fix it.
I have a bottle of champagne ready for that day!

talk about raising taxes, what about ALL the HUGE churches? ALL of that land, etc because of religion, people look past them, they pay NO taxes & bring in millions! you can't go 5 miles without seeing a church (in mid america) unlike small businesses suffer to pay their taxes.

Shame on both the host and Maher for calling women MILFs. Where is outcry from females on left when Maher degrades women and this pathetic host laughs at the comment. No wonder CNN is struggling with ratings, pathetic hosts and guests.

i hope she gets elected , we would kill two birds with one stone:
get a good president for the first time since Reagan
get rid of a bunch of liberals who would commit harakiri ( hopefully) or move to Syria

I think you have always been great on AGT; why lower yourself to have slime like Maher on your show. I have not watched your new show, is it so bad that only supporter of sicko's like Maher, watch. Do you and your wife have children? It would be O.K. To refer to your wife as MILF. I believe Maher needs Mental help. His hatred towards women is terrible. You are better than, that

The interview was enlightening as I had a curiosity about Bill Maher and his non-religious beliefs, but I found it funny that although he states he doesn't believe in God, he said, "Thank God!" in the interview! Mmmm! Some hypocrisy there, I believe!

my cat Butch, if he gets the GOP nomination, will beat Obama by a wide margin. I believe that in 2008 Obama got elected by the confluence of several unusual occurrences: 1 an unpopular war 2 an unpopular president 3 a financial catastrophe 4 a contender (McCain) who ran the worst presidential campaign in recent memory 5 an unusual participation of blacks in the ballots 6 a successful slogan that resonated with frustrated voters: hope and change 7 a public that knew nothing of Obama and his deficiencies and was optimistic about the man, but now the public knows who Obama is and what he is not.
Do you still hope she runs?

Bill Mahers. They say women liberation wont be complete till a silly woman can get anywhere as silly men have always been able to.
I would not blame these women for talking to God without considering that religions do what they can to persuade people of the supernatural. The Opus Dei sect for example, archive information on people who dont belong to the sect, members have to report on all conversations they have with outsiders, any team sent out by them to try to pull you into their group can then seem to have miraculouse knowledge of you. You can read about the opus dei in the site 'odan' opus dei, do prepare and send out all members to convert people. They also use a fortune tellers tricks to get you to let them know about you without realising that you have given them the information as a way of pretnding to have supernatural powers.
To be wacky, I would say telepathy exists, it is an uncertain science so there is no proving it, and those who mediate a lot get good at it, praying orders of monks and nuns or the evangelists who go into trances all the time, telepathy is a right side of the brain activity i imagine, that is made easier if you are have put aside the left hand side for a while by going into a trance and what you can do with telepathy is incredible, apart from direct communication with others heads, if you think about it it also means the ability to use for a while the minds of the person your victim is talking to, that person can say to the victime what they want him or her to say. This would not change peoples heads or at le4ast only as muchas a normal arguement would , after all you have your whole life experience in your head and telepathist only communicate for the space of time they give to that activity with others.
This does not involve the halucination of hearing voices, it involves the uncertain science of deciding if that thought was mine or someone elses. People who think they hear from Christ or God through these tricks dont hear from christ, they hear from their nearest crazy preacher with telepahtic abilities.
People should be warned not to trust the apparently supernatural, to ask themselves if those messages that seem suipernatural are saying something they aprove of or not and if not, and not believe in it however supernatural it seems without agree with it. When people are presented with the apparently supernatural and the religiouse are very good at making things look supernatural they leave their good sense and good judgement behind them.
The religious are changing our world one person at a time in the style of those letteres that you recieve one of and then send out four and then get back thousands. If their members all get good at or are taught manipulating and indoctrinating and are told to make the effort, to use this ability to bring others into line, with this or that christian group, then that is a lot of people to indoctrinate others with, on a one to one basis. Populations should be warned against pretence of the supernatural to indoctrinate them.
One to one conversion also has the advantage of making it hard for people to judge what is happening to them. If you see another person being coerced you think how cruel and unreasonable in the case of it being these things and it normaly is unreasonable in the case of indoctrination, their game is to say you need this or that religion because you are bad and they aren't to fussy about finding out how selfish you are before they accuse you of egoism say, not to mention their use of negative suggestion you are depressed you need us whether you are or not, they are concentrateing on how usefull to them criticism is, not on how true it is. If it happens to you on a one to one basis it is harder to determine whether you are over protective of yourself when you react to other people differing from you or to criticism of yourself and put a stop to it or if it is justified, to know if the criticisers are being abusive and doing you down to more easily manipulate you rather than because you need correcting.
Unless we wake up to this invisible propoganda machine, we will wake up tomorrow to find everyone has turned into Michel Bachmans, amiable with ideas that are pretty cruel for some parts of the population, like the poor. The strong heads and main bodies of the more fiercly christian among us seem to back up the rich at the expense of the poor, which is conundrum too strangeb and terrible to believe at first and then too true to deny. rose macaskie.

I think it is great for the GOP, that an atheist like Bill Maher supports the Democrats and Obama, it fits.
Also, Piers, I thought you were a journalist. To sit there and not challenge anyone that talks about MILFing Palin or Bachman, wheather you agree with them or not, is disquisting. I DID respect you. This type of so called journalism is exactly what is impowering the Tea Party. Are you crazy?

I'm not much of a Palin fan either, but I'll tell you, she'd get my vote over the guy that we have now.

Too many Americans were drinking the Obama kool-aid and didn't fully vet this guy, or did so but didn't care because he kept feeding you one drink after another...and you were there with your hands out.

And guess what....you are still waiting for that hand out. Keep drinking the kool-aid well into 2012 as I'm sure you will still be voting for the same guy....the results will be the same. Just a little more kool-aid though.

Stop being lazy and do your homework instead of just taking the first person that comes along to replace who is there now. That tactic has been used by the American voter forever and it has to stop.
WE THE PEOPLE need to get smarter when it comes to politics. The people in DC like stupid voters its what gets them re elected to continue to do what they want under the radar while we go back to our uninformed lives. Shame on all of us.

The PM interview that just ran–Tuesday 9:10 pm EDT–is a perfect example of why the mainstream media aren't helping. You asked what the Republican Senator would compromise on, and he answered "We are willing to give Obama the debt ceiling hike he wants, all we want is a balanced budget." His idea of compromise is to give Obama a debt hike? It 's the country that needs a debt hike, according to everyone but the most fanatical tea partyers, not Obama. Why didn't you ask the real question: what are you willing to compromise on to ACHIEVE a balanced budget? They keep demanding cuts and you keep letting them get away with offering nothing in return.

The retardicans are ruining are country plain and simple. The only people that should be voting republican are the "elitest rich" who the republicans continue to protect and give tax breaks to time and time again. It is sad to see so many dumb hicks run for president and see half of america go out screamin yee-ha! Crazy...

It is easy to tell where Piers stands, just check his guest list snd his questions. Not surprising he fits into the CNN profile of trashing people's character. Journalist, I think not. Muckracker probably.

Pierce is a smart ass who denegrates conservatives and turns the interview into a little kid toy box. Obviously a hard liberal, he's lucky he has a job. He's not one to be believed, he can't be trusted with his "slip and slide" banter. Not good. I'm not seeing him again. I know I wouldn't get a straight, fair answer from him. Goodbye CNN.

Why does what Bill Maher have to say matter to anyone, would love to walk into a bar and see him sitting at the bar, wouldn't be sitting for long. The man would have a list of problems to contend with, and he wouldn't be contending with them on his talk show.

I'm going to Canada if Obama wins. Illegal aliens have more rights than American citizens. What a fraud Obama is.
He doesn't care about Americans....if he did, the laws of our country would be enforced, not given away in exchange for votes.

At his age and still acting like a 20 year old, he is so full of himself and that good looking. I think he has some good points if he can get over his huge ego. Lets face it...if you can't commit to a relationship then what can you commit to??

The Republicans are nuts. They had a big birthday cake for a dead man. Ronald Reagan. How many years has he been dead? And then Michelle Backman gets the day Elvis died confused with his birthday. And Perry creeps me out with his Bush wanna be style and how un-American is he for writing a book criticizing social security? So if he doesn't like big government he can quit working for it and give his social security earnings to hungry kids in Kentucky.

I disagree with Bill, Palin could never become president, believe it or not most of us are not that stupid. Republicans will not let Obama succeed no matter how bad it gets here in the USA, we need someone that can be stronger than them and not give in to their tactics, because they are the reason we are in this mess. Hillary needs to come and run, like it or not.

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To those that used very derogatory words such as "idiot" on PRESIDENT OBAMA, I just have one message reminder to you - BARACK OBAMA IS AND STILL REMAINS AND WILL AGAIN BE THE PRESIDENT / COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE WORLD'S SUPPER WORLD POWER, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Thank you and always learn to respect your President because like it or not, he is your boss, your commander-in-chief and above all, the leader of the whole world. Your sarah palin is not even qualified enough to be a house maid in HIS residence - you know where am talking about, the White House,let alone dreaming of occupying it.By you Campaigning for sarah palin for such position simply underscores your credibility, love and respect for yourselves and the office of the presidency. You guys are simply foolish thinkers!

President George W Bush has attended a ivy leauge school just like you i guess that makes you a idiot also.
What a mess this country has become how do you dam a president and feel your thoughts are valid?
the miss spelling is for you people that need something as simple as that to complain about WOW what idiots in America.

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Bill took us back to Reagan .... the last true conservative president who was despised by the blue blood country club establishment republicans, laughed at as a complete buffoon by the MSM and liberals ..... but guess what? he won twice with a vicious media baying at his heels ... not only won but pushed tax reform through a D dominated congress that spurred economic growth and lifted the nation out of Carter and D congress induced depression. Palin too speaks directly to the electorate over the head and the vicious ridicule of the establishment media .... the MSM has been trying to finish her off since 2008 without success ... Reagan was laughed at when he considered running as the R candidate in 1968 ... laughed at again in 1976 and laughed at again in 1980 when he won the nomination against the wishes of blue blood rinos .... Continue to laugh at Palin, to ridicule her, to diminish her excellent record of public service at your peril. The nation is increasingly aware of tyranny and arrogant incompetence of big government and is ready to react and return to conservative founding principles

The aftermath of Bush? (B.S.) The Democrats ruined us between 2007 and the current day. They made a boatloads of money on the same policies that caused the economic crash. Dodd made 1st the most off of Fannie and Freddie. Guess who came in 2nd??? Barry Soetoro/Obama. Yes!

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